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Oh, dear. It gets better, I promise. I was Child #2's pacifier as well, and it is extremely challenging to have so much of your day taken up by lying with baby. I admit I enjoyed the first 15 minutes of snuggling, but two hours gets old. It's all a little fuzzy at this point, but I think I succeeded in breaking little man of the habit around 6 months old. I'd only let him nurse until I was empty, about 30 minutes for my fairly efficient eater. If he was awake and still hungry, he would eat solid food at that point. If he was asleep, I could sometimes carefully detach him and sneak away. More often, I stopped nursing and he started screaming. I couldn't stand being his pacifier any longer, and if he was tired he did go back to sleep on his own. (Sometimes helped by the swing, which he didn't love but tolerated.) Or he kept screaming, and I put in earplugs. After not too long, he learned nursing was for food and got less "attached" to needing me while sleeping.

Anyway, I sympathize. Days with babies are long, you are a very good mother and getting through the day is an accomplishment in itself. Not to mention, doing laundry, baking bread, and making lunch!

I actually wrote this a few weeks ago, since which he's been sleeping more on his own (i.e. I'd had it, so I started popping him off and stuffing him in his crib and hoping his screaming didn't wake Bug up). Babies! SO inconvenient!

Ha! Well, there are worse things than a lot of nursing. And Tatoe isn't a particularly screamy baby, I'm just less... sensitive? to it than I was with Bug. Like, I need a shower, kid, so tough it out for five minutes. Maybe even ten.

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